First off all, I keep my Betta in a 1 Gallon tank. I dont want any messages about how thats too small because it’s not at all. I had a Betta before that live a year in a 1/2 gallon tank. And even the Pet store suggests 1 Gallon. Ok here are my questions:
- I cleaned my Betta’s tank on Thursday and the water still looks pretty clean but has “excreted/pooped” lol twice since then. It’s poop is green gross little blobs…ew. It stays at the bottom with the gravel but I’m worried it’s going to kill my fish for something. Will it hurt my fish? How often should I change it’s tank? With my last fish, I changed the water once a week. Friends of mine that have Betta say that they change it once a week too.
- My Betta seems to ALWAYS be asking for food. I dont want to feed it more than twice a day but it’s always waiting for food to come. It looks at me now because it knows I have the good stuff and it goes to the top of the tank, not to breath the bubbles out, but to look. Is this normal? It’s a smaller sized Betta so I expected it wouldnt eat that much. Right now I’m feeding it twice a day, 3 – 4 bits each feeding.
- If you put more conditioner in the tank that should be, will your fish be harmed? I’m just asking because the conditioner I have doesnt say how much I need to put it. Right now I’m putting in one “cap-full” of the conditioner. How much should I be putting in?
@Mark: ….Someone’s got a big vocabulary and a little dicktionary. But hey, I’m sure you’ve still got your looks – where are you keeping them? I didnt ask for a cocky remark. No best answer for you, honey.
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